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Old 03-24-2008, 09:19 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Does anyone know of a good, free program that will let me edit text on a PDF file? I've tried loading it up in Photoshop and although it will let me edit the document, for some reason some text fields aren't showing up. I've also tried a few so-called free editors, but they all place this big nasty watermark across my page.

Any help would be very appreciated. Thanks very much!
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Old 03-25-2008, 07:13 AM   #2 (permalink)
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More often than not, you won't be able to. Even Adobe's editor (Acrobat) is not capable of modifying text or layout.

Your only real hope for modifying a PDF is to have access to the source. If it professionally generated, it was probably done in Indesign. If you can get your hands on the .indd file, you'll be golden.
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Old 04-18-2008, 01:16 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Not free, but Nuance PDF Converter will do it.

http://www.nuance.com/pdfconverter/

Convert to Word or other format, make changes, convert back to PDF using one of many free utilities.
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Old 05-12-2008, 04:17 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Does anyone know of a good, free program that will let me edit text on a PDF file? I've tried loading it up in Photoshop and although it will let me edit the document, for some reason some text fields aren't showing up. I've also tried a few so-called free editors, but they all place this big nasty watermark across my page.

Any help would be very appreciated. Thanks very much!
Not sure why you had a problem with Photoshop. I tried it with the GIMP (free) and it worked. It looked horrible, but my edits showed up. Maybe if i took more care it might even come out looking OK.

I guess my question is why you need to do this. pdf files are meant to be printed (to screen or hardcopy). It's easy enough to get the text if that's what you want. (via pdf2ps --> ps2ascii)
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Old 05-13-2008, 09:33 AM   #5 (permalink)
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Well, what you can do is virtually "print" any document into a pdf. Let's say you have a word doc.. You can turn into a pdf with PDFCreator. Check out the Open Source/freeware/gratis software thread, the link is in my signature.
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